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Paul Joyce
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EVDA

Extreme Value Domain of Attraction

This program is associated with Beisel et.al.  (2007), wherein we describe a likelihood ratio framework for analyzing the fitness effects of beneficial mutations, focusing on testing the null hypothesis that the distribution is exponential. We also describe how to account for missing the smallest effect mutations, which are often difficult to identify experimentally.  We also describe  how to pool data across experiments, since we expect few possible beneficial mutations in any particular experiment.


INSTRUCTIONS

  • The programs are written in R.  R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics.  Download R and install.  Make sure that you familiarize yourself with the use of R before using the following programs.

  •  Download, read and follow the instructions in  the guide, before running these two programs. The guide will provides some useful information about testing the domain of attraction for adaptive mutants.

PROGRAM

evalrtfunc.R
These are the supporting functions for evalrt.R and evalrtmc.R  which implement methods described in Beisel et. al., "Testing the extreme value domain of attraction fordistributions of beneficial fitness effects."  Genetics 2007.

evalrt.R
This program implements the LRT for the Gumbel domain of attraction against  a GPD alternative as implemented in  Beisel et. al., "Testing the extreme value domain of attraction for  distributions of beneficial fitness effects." Genetics 2007.

evalrtmc.R
This program implements the LRT for the Gumbel domain of attraction against a GPD alternative incooperating measurement error as implemented in Beisel et. al., "Testing the extreme value domain of attraction for  distributions of beneficial fitness effects." Genetics 2007.


EXAMPLE DATA
You may download a text file with a sample  data set by clicking (here) .   You can replace this file with your own data set.

If you have any questions on running these programs contact
Craig Beisel [craig@beisel.net]
or
Darin Rokyta
[rokyta@uidaho.edu]